Edge Knoll Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings
EDGE KNOLL FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS, DIDDRIDGE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322773
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Edge Knoll Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- EDGE KNOLL FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS, DIDDRIDGE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1322773
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Edge Knoll Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- EDGE KNOLL FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS, DIDDRIDGE LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- EDGE KNOLL FARMHOUSE AND ATTACHED FARM BUILDINGS, DIDDRIDGE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hamsterley
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 13274 31747
Details
HAMSTERLEY DIDDRIDGE LANE NZ 13 SW (East side) 11/50 Edge Knoll 5.2.87 Farmhouse and attached farm buildings GV II House, circa 1725 with C19 and C20 alterations. Thinly-rendered rubble with coarse sandstone ashlar dressings, quoins and part boulder plinth; stone- flagged roof with stone ridge and stone gable copings. Main range with 3 rear wings. 2 storeys, 4 bays, the fourth wider; one-storey, 2-bay farmbuildings set back at left; one-storey, one-bay right extension. One-storey porch, in second bay, has embattled parapet over renewed double doors in segmental- headed moulded stone surround with dropped key. Plain sashes with flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Battlemented parapet over right extension with C20 masonry and glazed door with glazing bars. Roof has curved kneelers; 3 corniced ridge chimneys with strings. Rear wings slightly lower, with gables treated in similar manner; side stone steps to first-floor door in right wing.
Interior shows large chamfered beams; round-headed corner cupboard in one ground-floor room.
Listing NGR: NZ1327431747
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 111851
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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